What happened to Major Henry Rathbone who fought off John Wilkes Booth, after the killing of Abraham Lincoln?
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What happened to Major Henry Rathbone who fought off John Wilkes Booth, after the killing of Abraham Lincoln?
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Major Henry Rathbone hade been invited by Mary Lincoln to attend a play at Ford’s Theater, after General Grant and a few others had declined the invitation. The Major was attending with his step sister, Clara Harris, who was also his fiancé. Rathbone had inherited a sizable fortune upon his father’s passing, making the Major a rich man, who with his fiancé, had become friends of Mrs. Lincoln.
Major Rathbone was sitting with the President and his wife in a private box when Booth shot Lincoln. The Major reached for Booth who stabbed at him, causing a serious would along his arm. The Major fell back, and then once again reached for Booth who perched on the theater box sill, possibly causing Booth to land awkwardly on the stage below, breaking his leg.
Major Rathbone helped assist in carrying the dying President across the street to a house where he would die. The Major passed out, causing one of Lincoln’s attending doctors to examine the arm wound which was more serious than it was first believed.
Rathbone would go on to marry Clara and have three children. But the husband suffered mental anguish because he had been unable to save the President. In 1870 the Major quit the Army, and because of his mental instabilities, was unable to keep a job. He also resented the time his wife spent with the children who were just being born. Then the Major became convinced that his wife was having affairs, and threatened her.
In this condition, President Chester A appointed Rathbone as the U.S. Consul to the Province of Hanover in 1882. It was in Germany that Henry Rathbone, began to fear that Clara would leave, taking the children from him. On the day before Christmas eve, 1883, Henry took a knife and a pistol, and headed for the children’s room. Clara caught up with her husband and in the fight that ensued, Henry shot and stabbed his wife to death, followed by a botched attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself. When the police arrived, Henry claimed there had been people hiding behind the pictures on the wall. In Germany he was found guilty but his doctors stated that he was mentally incapacitated, and so he was assigned to live out his days in an criminal asylum for the insane at Hildesheim, Germany, where he died in 1911.
Major Rathbone’s step father Ira Harris, would become a US Senator from NY. His son, Henry Riggs Rathbone, would be inspired by family connections, to become a US Congressman from Illinois, starting in 1923.
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After the assassination another conspirator Herold met up with Booth and around midnight the two of them stopped at the Surratt tavern to collect field glasses and carbines that had been left there for them earlier. Booth drank some whiskey for the pain in his leg. At about 4 am they arrived in the small settlement of Bryantown at the house of the physician, Dr. Mudd. According to Mudd’s later account, Booth had disguised himself in a shawl that hid the lower part of his face. Herold, who did all the talking, gave false names and claimed that his companion had been involved in a riding accident. Mudd set and splinted Booth’s broken leg and insisted that his visitors stay the night. Next morning he got his handyman to make rude crutches for Booth and lent him his razor to shave off a moustache. After an unsuccessful attempt to hire a carriage, the two fugitives left by a short cut through a swamp that Dr Mudd pointed out to them. He claimed that they pressed twenty-five dollars on him for his services.
Most of the other conspirators were swiftly rounded up. Only Booth, Herold and Surratt remained at large. On 20 April Secretary Stanton offered a $100,000 reward for their capture. Persons ‘harbouring or secreting’ them would be ‘subject to trial by a military commission and the punishment of DEATH’. In all, several hundred people were arrested, including the proprietors of Ford’s theatre. Most had to be released for lack of evidence.
The search for the principal conspirator was pursued with great vigour through swamp and forest, but he and his companion managed to elude capture for some time with the help of Confederate sympathizers. Strangely, none of these was ever prosecuted.
Early in the morning of 26 April a troop of cavalry commanded by First Lieutenant Edward Doherty caught up with Booth hiding in a barn used as a tobacco warehouse at Garrett’s farm near Port Royal, Virginia. At first, the officer did not realise that Herold was inside as well. Doherty tells the story as follows,
We threatened to burn the barn if he did not surrender; at one time gave him ten minutes to make up his mind. Finally, Booth said, “Oh; Captain, there is a man here who wants to surrender awful bad:” I answered, and I think Mr. Baker did at the same time, “Hand out your arms.” Herold replied, “I have none.” Baker said, “We know exactly what you have got.” Booth replied, “I own all the arms, and intend to use them on you gentlemen.” After some little parley I said, “Let him out.”
His report went on,
Booth’s spinal cord had been severed by the shot and when he asked his captors to raise his hands before his face he was heard to mutter, ‘Useless! Useless!’ In his dying moments he whispered, ‘Tell my mother I did it for my country.’
[Adapted from the author’s book Injustice .]
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He suffered from increasingly severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and survivors guilt for the remainder of his life.
Individuals contending with post-traumatic stress disorder consistently return their thinking to the traumatic event, asking themselves the same questions and reliving the moments they need to let go of. They have constant feelings of regret and failure, brought about by the sublest triggers. Henry Rathbone suffered from this disorder after Lincoln’s assassination, causing him to ruin many of his relationships and impacting his daily life choices.
For the majority of his life, Henry had hid behind his wealth. He was never prepared for such a situation as the assassination experience, which was tragic and monumental, and couldn’t confide in others for commonality.
Henry’s wife Clara had suspicions that he might attempt suicide. His depression cloaked others in negativity, and he would have erratic outbursts. He became convinced of the imaginary conspiracy that Clara had plans to leave him and take the children with her, and on Monday, December 23rd, 1883, after fatally shooting Clara twice in the chest and stabbing her once in the heart, he would inflict five stabs to himself, the last of them plunging into his lung.
Henry’s brief trial was held on January 1884. Henry claimed to have no memory of murdering Clara, saying an intruder had murdered her and attacked him. The court ended the trial when evidence was provided of Henry’s symptoms of insanity. He would be committed to an asylum for the criminally insane, where he would spend the remaining twenty-seven years of his life.
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You must mean Major Henry Rathbone. Like so many others associated with Lincoln’s assasination, his life was forever changed by the events of that night.. He married Clara Harris, the lady he ecorted to Ford Theatre, but he was never really himself again. Poor health – physical and mental – forced his resignation from the army at age 45. The family moved to Germany where – this gets grisly – Rathbone went totally off and threatened Clara and the kids with a knife. She got him into the bedroom away from their children where he proeeded to murder his wife and attempt to take his own life. But failed. Here’s the complete story.
A Life Turned Tragic: Major Henry Rathbone and the Lincoln Assassination
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After Lincoln’s death, Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth president of the United States.
A week later, Lincoln was buried. Meanwhile, a manhunt was underway to find Booth and his possible accomplices.
John Wilkes Booth had successfully made his way to the Maryland countryside , accompanied by David Herold, who, along with Lewis Powell( assigned to murder US Secretary of State William Seward), was the third co-conspirator in the assassination plot.
Booth was in a miserable state. He’d shattered his fibula in the jump from the state box to the stage. Making matters worse, the public response to Lincoln’s death was not what Booth had hoped.
Rather than being hailed as a hero, Booth was characterized as an enemy of the people.
Meanwhile, Powell had already been captured in Washington and was scheduled to be hung.
Booth and David Herold were hiding safely in a farmhouse when their doomsday came on April 26, 1865 .
Both had been telling everyone they were former soldiers , but local men identified Booth and Herold from their wanted photographs and led soldiers to their hideout.
When the authorities arrived, Herold surrendered , but Booth, after pulling a gun, was killed by a rifle shot to the neck . Sergeant Boston Corbett fired the bullet that pierced Booth’s spinal cord and paralyzed him from the neck down.
By morning, the 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth was dead .
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That was a Major Rathbone who, believe it or not, later married the girlfriend that he escorted to the play that evening (Clara Harris), then a number of years later went berserk and killed her and attempted suicide.
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The young couple who were with the Lincolns when the president was shot, Clara Harris and Major Henry Rathbone, had a particularly tragic life.
They married in 1867 but Rathbone’s mental health saw a rapid decline as he descended slowly into madness, alcoholism and chronic unemployment.
After resigning from the military with the rank of colonel, Rathbone was appointed U.S. counsel to Germany in 1882 and moved his young family there.
A year later, he shot Harris in the head with a pistol, killing her, tried to kill his children, and then attempted suicide. Rathbone was declared criminally insane and spent the rest of his life (nearly thirty years) in a German insane asylum, dying in 1911.
The remains of the couple in a Hanover cemetery were eventually moved to an unmarked plot of by the cemetery proprietors because no one had ever visited their graves.
> Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination
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His name was Rathburn. He and his fiancée, Clara Harris were in the box with the Lincolns. He was slashed in the arm by Booth. He survived the attemp. He and Miss Harris married and he was working with the State Department in Germany during the 1880s. He went insane killed his wife and children and committed suicide.
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John Wilkes Booth was hunted down by 2,000 Federal troops over a twelve day period from April 14th, 1865 to April 26th, 1865. He was found hiding in a tobacco barn on Garrett’s Farm with his fellow conspirator David E. Harold.
He was ordered by Union Lieutenant Edward H. Dorthey to come out of the barn and surrender. His co-conspirator David Herold came out and surrendered himself instead. Lieutenant Dorthey told Booth that if he did not come out of the barn then they would set the barn on fire to force him out. Instead Booth stayed inside and told the soldiers “Prepare a stretcher for me boys!”. When Booth raised his gun to shoot at one of the soldiers a Union Sergeant named Boston Corbett aimed his revolver through a hole in the barn and shot him in the neck. Booth later died that morning. The last words that he spoke before he died were “Tell my mother I died for my country…these hands…useless…useless…”.
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tracked down and surrounded while he was found hiding in an old barn. Gun fire exuded, he was wounded, retrieved then left to perish from his wounds. you can Google for details.
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When Henry was eight, his father died, and Henry inherited five million dollars from his wealthy father. At eleven, his mother married a widower named Ira Harris. Not long after their marriage, Ira would become a U.S. Senator. Ira and his first wife had a daughter named Clara. Clara Harris and her stepbrother, Henry Rathbone, became good friends.
At the beginning of the war, Henry joined the army. The wealthy, well-connected young man spent the entire war behind a desk. He sat in comfort as he watched thousands die in battle. Reading the casualty list day after day must have caused him some anguish.
On the day of Lincoln’s assassination, Lieutenant Dana heard rumors that the president was in great danger of being killed. He posted guards at all the bridges in and out of the city. Anyone wishing to enter or leave the city had to give an excellent reason, such as sickness or death. Rumors were going around Washington that Lincoln would be killed tonight. Many people were aware that this would be Lincoln’s last night. Abraham Lincoln and Major Rathbone were unaware of the danger.
The head of the New Detective Police, Lafayette Baker, said that “there were at least eleven members of Congress involved in the plot, no less than twelve Army officers, three Naval officers and at least twenty-four civilians, of which one was a governor of a loyal state. Five were bankers of great repute, three were nationally known newspapermen and eleven were industrialists of great repute and wealth.”
Normally, receiving an invitation from the president to attend a play would be a great honor. However, with so many people knowing about the assassination, attending the play with the Lincolns would be a dangerous thing to do. Only the clueless would accept an invitation from this president.
Earlier that day, Lincoln asked General Grant to attend the play. He accepted. When Edwin Stanton learned that Grant was attending the play with Lincoln, Stanton warned Grant that attending the play would be too dangerous and advised him not to go. After meeting with Stanton, Grant sent a note to Lincoln declining the invitation.
Abraham Lincoln then asked Stanton to attend the play with him. Instead of warning Lincoln about the dangers of attending the play, Stanton told Lincoln that he had too much work to do. Lincoln then asked Stanton if he would allow Major Eckert to attend the play with him. Stanton told Lincoln that Eckert had too much work to do in the telegraph office, and he couldn’t spare him.
Lincoln also asked Schuyler Colfax (Speaker of the House), George Ashmun, Richard J. Oglesby (governor of Illinois), Richard Yates, General Isham N. Haynie, William A. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wallace (governor of the Idaho Territory). They all refused. The Lincolns finally found someone to attend the play with them, Henry Rathbone and his stepsister Clara Harris.
During the play, Lincoln’s chair was placed closest to the door. To his right was Mary and to Mary’s right was Clara Harris and Major Rathbone. Major Rathbone was in a poor position to come to the aid of the president.
Each person’s head would be turned slightly to the right while watching the play. While Rathbone watched the play, his head was turned to the right, and Lincoln was behind him and out of sight.
When Rathbone heard a shot, he turned. He could see a man with a derringer through a cloud of smoke. Rathbone got up and stepped in front of the ladies, and made a grab for the assailant. The assailant stabbed Rathbone with his knife. Rathbone was incapacitated with a deep stab wound in his bicep.
For the rest of his life, Rathbone would feel guilt for allowing the assassin such easy access to the president. After Henry’s wound healed, Henry and Clara married and had children.
After the assassination, Henry was never the same. He was constantly plagued by one mysterious medical problem after another. While in a delusional state, he believed Clara was leaving him and taking the kids. On Christmas Eve of 1883, Henry lost all control. He grabbed his revolver and a knife and walked to his children’s bedroom. Clara saw the danger her children were in and managed to get Henry out of the room. She guided him to their bedroom. Once they were in the bedroom, before Clara could calm him down, Major Rathbone shot and killed his wife.
Major Henry Rathbone spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum.
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